# Uroš Živanović

Uroš Živanović (born 30 June 2005) is a Serbian competitive swimmer. He won the world junior title and gold medal in the 50-metre breaststroke and the silver medal in the 100-metre breaststroke at the 2022 World Junior Championships. At the 2022 European Junior Championships, he won the bronze medal in the 50-metre breaststroke.

## Background

Živanović was born 30 June 2005 in Serbia. He attends Gimnazija in Leskovac. He trains with and competes for swim club Dubočica.

## Career
### 2021–2022

In July 2021, at the 2021 European Junior Swimming Championships, held in Rome, Italy, Živanović placed ninth in the 50-metre breaststroke with a time of 28.31 seconds, ninth in the 100-metre breaststroke with a time of 1:02.56, twelfth in the 4×100-metre mixed freestyle relay, 57th in the 50-metre butterfly with a 26.92, and 72nd in the 50-metre freestyle with a time of 24.72 seconds. At the 2022 European Junior Swimming Championships, held the following July in Otopeni, Romania, he won the bronze medal with a time of 27.69 seconds after swimming a personal best time of 27.64 seconds in the semifinals. In the 200-metre breaststroke, he swam a personal best time of 2:18.86 in the preliminary heats before placing fourteenth overall in the semifinals with a 2:19.25. In his third event of the Championships, the 100-metre breaststroke, he placed fourth with a time of 1:01.85, finishing 0.53 seconds behind bronze medalist Steijn Louter of the Netherlands.

#### 2022 European Aquatics Championships

Živanović qualified for the 2022 European Aquatics Championships, contested starting 11 August at Foro Italico in Rome, Italy, in the 100-metre breaststroke and also entered to compete in the 50-metre breaststroke, 50-metre freestyle, and 100-metre freestyle. The first day of competition, he placed 33rd in the 100-metre breaststroke with a time of 1:03.00. On the second day, he finished in a personal best time of 52.10 seconds in the 100-metre freestyle preliminary heats to place 67th overall. Day four, he split a 50.59 for the anchor leg of the 4×100-metre freestyle relay to help place twelfth with a time of 3:18.15 in the preliminary heats. In the 50-metre breaststroke preliminary heats on day five, he placed 32nd overall with a time of 28.47 seconds. For his final event, he placed 66th in the 50-metre freestyle preliminary heats on day six with a personal best time of 23.98 seconds.

#### 2022 World Junior Championships

On day one of competition at the 2022 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Lima, Peru, Živanović ranked fourth in the preliminaries of the 100-metre breaststroke with a 1:02.64 and advanced to the semifinals. In the evening semifinals, he lowered his time to a 1:02.46 and qualified for the final ranking seconds. For the final the following day, he achieved a personal best time of 1:01.64 and won the silver medal, finishing 0.34 seconds behind gold medalist Luka Mladenovic of Austria. Three days later, he finished in a time of 28.30 seconds in the preliminary heats of the 50-metre breaststroke, advancing to the semifinals ranking first. Lowering his time to a 28.08 in the semifinals later in the day, he ranked first and qualified for the final. In the final the next day, he won the gold medal with a time of 27.70 seconds, which was over five-tenths of a second ahead of silver medalist Alex Sabattani of Italy and bronze medalist Luka Mladenovic. Returning home to Leskovac following his performances, he received a welcome reception at his school, Gimnazija, which included the director of the school.

#### 2022 Swimming World Cup

At the 2022 FINA Swimming World Cup conducted in short course metres (25-metre pool) in October in Berlin, Germany, Živanović placed seventeenth in the 200-metre breaststrkoe with a 2:14.38, nineteenth in the 100-metre breaststroke with a 1:00.31, twenty-first in the 50-metre breaststroke with a time of 27.56 seconds (1.12 seconds behind preliminary heats first-ranked Nicolò Martinenghi of Italy), thirty-ninth in the 100-metre individual medley with a 57.28, and ninety-sixth in the 100-metre freestyle with a time of 51.12 seconds.

## International championships (50 m)

| Meet | 50 free | 100 free | 50 breast | 100 breast | 200 breast | 50 fly | 4×100 free | 4×100 mixed free |
| Junior level |||||||||
| EJC 2021 | 72nd | | 9th | 9th | | 57th | | 12th |
| EJC 2022 | | | | 4th | 14th | | | |
| WJC 2022 | | | | | | | | |
| Senior level |||||||||
| EC 2022 | 66th | 67th | 32nd | 33rd | | | 12th | |

## Personal best times
### Long course metres (50 m pool)

| Event | Time | | Meet | Location | Date |
| 50 m freestyle | 23.98 | h | 2022 European Aquatics Championships | Rome, Italy | 16 August 2022 |
| 100 m freestyle | 52.10 | h | 2022 European Aquatics Championships | Rome, Italy | 12 August 2022 |
| 50 m breaststroke | 27.64 | sf | 2022 European Junior Championships | Otopeni, Romania | 5 July 2022 |
| 100 m breaststroke | 1:01.64 | | 2022 World Junior Championships | Lima, Peru | 31 August 2022 |
| 200 m breaststroke | 2:18.86 | h | 2022 European Junior Championships | Otopeni, Romania | 7 July 2022 |
Legend: h – preliminary heat; sf – semifinal

### Short course metres (25 m pool)

| Event | Time | Meet | Location | Date |
| 50 m breaststroke | 27.33 | Prevstvo Srbije za kadete | Zrenjanin | 4 December 2021 |
| 100 m breaststroke | 59.74 | Prevstvo Srbije za kadete | Zrenjanin | 5 December 2021 |
| 100 m individual medley | 55.86 | Prevstvo Srbije za kadete | Zrenjanin | 4 December 2021 |